Langston Hughes quote from the The Collected Poems

Harlem

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
a raisin in the sun?
Or fester a sore
And then run?
Does it stink rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over
a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

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